Posted on 07/02/2009 8:13:34 AM PDT by Saint X
No matter how much money any government - federal, state or local - puts into public education, it's never enough in some people's eyes.
A July 1 "NBC Nightly News" segment detailed a new use of tax payer dollars in one of the worst performing, financially struggling school systems in the country - the Washington, D.C. public school system. They are paying school children with taxpayer funds, part of a social experiment to improve school participation at the middle school level.
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Does NBC have some kind of a financial interest in the businesses that would profit from this? Like the climate bill?
“reparations” and “wealth transfer” come to mind too.
How much do they currently spend per pupil? I think it's over $25,000 a year for each kid. And they are "financially struggling"? And the solution is to throw down a little "walking around" money to reward some folks for doing what they already should be doing?
Reparations. It's all just Reparations.
just making sure these kids vote democrat for the rest of their lives. if this was privately funded, i would have less of an issue.
If NBC thinks this is a good idea, why don’t they use their money?
“...If NBC thinks this is a good idea, why dont they use their money?....”
That’s the first thing I thought of! Freaking Libtards always preach “reaching out” and “showing kindness”....but never with their money....always taxpayer money. Then they have the audacity to “criminalize” Christians that give of their own money! I am SO FED up with these fascist D-Heads!
There used to be something called “families” and in these families there were parents (obsolete, you can look it up in any dictionary). These parent people saw to it that children went to school, studied, did their homework, etc. This was before enlightened liberals destroyed our culture.
Just take it out of the Brian Williams tanning bed/bronzer budget.
That alone should take care of all the bribes for the black students in 6 major metropoli.
Wonderful idea! Where does NBC intend to set up the fund it will establish to pay these kids out of its obscene profits?
what a dumb idea. will we pay their parents for sending them??
They’re probably better off not going these days
So how much are these kids getting paid?
$172,000 a year?
Doesn’t this violate child labor laws?
I think if they reduce teacher’s salaries and instead pay the kids for performance, this could be an improvement.
Bwahahaha. Desperation sets in. You can pay kids to show up, but you cannot pay them to learn. The success of the measure will be quantified by attendance performance. Corrupt the grading scheme to assign marks for attendance and you can game internal academic performance metrics as well.
Then there is the cherry on top. Once money is involved, I completely foresee students physically threatening teachers to mark them down as attending when they are absent. Anyone with any familiarity with these particular schools knows what I am talking about. The lunatics run the asylum.
By the way: Of course, this includes the children of ILLEGAL ALIENS.
The next thing you know, we'll be paying muggers a monthly fee to NOT mug us.
Regards,
Child labor laws are only to prevent full participation in a free economy, not a statist system of sheeple production.
A better idea would be to get rid of all welfare checks, food stamps, subsidized health care, WIC, energy assistance etc. and tell the entire population within our borders - "If you do not work, you do not eat". Get a job, open a business, go to school to get a better job, your alternative is starve! Facing the cruel realities of a fallen world is the most kind, productive and truthful approach possible.
But an even better idea is all of the above and then eliminate the government schools altogether, because a mind is a terrible thing to waste and a people is a terrible thing to enslave.
They should really teach the kids and takeout social security, disability, state / federal / and local taxes, etc........
Oh don’t forget the new health care tax!
Not really something new. A black woman who is a good friend of mine told me that she received monthly government checks when she attended Temple Univ. The checks were an incentive to prevent her from dropping out of college. The checks stopped, when she dropped out.
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